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The Secret Life Of Colleagues

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Many remote workers have learned to create a facade — concealing the real state of their home offices. In 2020, a scientist shared the reality of her Zoom background on Twitter. The Tweet went viral and encouraged others working from home during the pandemic to share some truths about remote working.

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Being furloughed affected people’s sense of time and relationship with work

Workplace Insight

Between March 2020 and September 2021, millions of workers furloughed under the UK government’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme lived what for many of us is a dream: being paid not to work. Another, a café manager, used furlough to learn creative writing and dance through online classes.

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How Designers Can Set The Stage For A Flexible Future

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Since March of 2020, SmithGroup has remained flexible and agile—cautious to avoid firm deadlines for returning to the office and empathetic to employees’ needs on various levels. Regardless of status, each employee is given a $1,000 stipend to set up their home office. Here’s how we are responding: Feedback Loop.

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Generations in the workplace: setting the record straight

Workplace Insight

Organisations had already started to focus on delivering a better workplace experience in order to bring employees back to the office. We entered the workforce in 2020 when s**t had hit the fan. Natalia Vavilina : The pandemic has shown us that people prefer average home office experience over average office experience.

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Major new report offers snapshot of hybrid and remote work debate in the US

Workplace Insight

Employees say they are more productive working remotely than in-office when they need to work independently (69 percent versus 17 percent respectively), think creatively (58 percent vs 21 percent), learn (50 percent vs 28 percent), meet deadlines (49 percent vs 30 percent), and brainstorm/innovate (43 percent vs. 32 percent).

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How We Need To Adjust To The Future Of Work – A personal interview with Bonnie Low-Kramen by Karen Mangia for Thrive Global

Bonnie Low Kramen

Given the massive changes in the workplace since March, 2020, the trend is taking a fresh look at job descriptions and titles in order to update them and make them reflective of the 2022 role. Long before March, 2020, Executive Assistants were aware that their official job descriptions were painfully obsolete and out of date.

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Embrace Empathy, Innovation To Revolutionize Your Hybrid Meetings

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Imagine a world where your voice carries the same weight, whether you’re in a sleek, glass-walled conference room or cozied up in your home office. This isn’t a far-off dream; it’s the imperative evolution of hybrid meetings.